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Created by Miryana Dorosiev
over 9 years ago
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Question | Answer |
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HISTORY AND CONCEPTUAL HISTORY | HISTORY: it is merely descriptive, it is interested in the question what people at different points in time believed and knew CONCEPTUAL HISTORY: it is explanatory, it is interested in both WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVED AND KNEW and WHY DID THEY BELIEVED PARTICULAR IDEAS AND HOW DID THEY ARRIVE AT THE KNOWLEDGE THEY HAD. |
SOME PERENNIAL QUESTIONS | Why human beings behave in the way they do? Why different people react differently in the same situation? Can we know what the others think and wish? |
THE STRIVE FOR RIGOR | It begins with the awareness that not all answers of the perennial questions are equally good. PLATO (427 – 347 BC): KNOWLEDGE is different from mere OPINION. KNOWLEDGE = JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEF KNOWLEDGE IS BINDED |
BIASES IN HISTORY WRITING | Focused on persons rather than on the shared ideas (Zeitgeist); Too much credit is given to a small number of people (the so-called “Matthew effect”); The hindsight bias (interpreting ideas from the stance of what we know now); Ethnocentrism (too much attention is given to the contribution of a particular culture); The authors of historical books too often rely on other historical books. |
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